Protesting the Bailout

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On Wall Street, activists and culture jammers protest the governments proposed financial bailout

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[MasterMark123]

My fellow Americans, it has now been proven with out any doubt, that ONLY the TOP wealthiest 10% of people in the USA only matter! We are told repeatedly that there is no money for a national health plan. No money for affordable housing and bridges and highways, cancer and Aids research yet like magic theres PLENTY of money for war & destruction of lives and money to hand over to the uber wealthy so they don't need to sweat. Sharpen up the Guillotines lets go head hunting for the rich thieves

[JacksSmilingRevenge]

Don't you people know your place?

Our good government is only trying to help us. Privatizing profit, and socializing losses. These rich people must count on us to do our part to make sure they stay rich. How dare you put food for your family in front of Skip getting a new Porsche for his high school graduation. You selfish bastards...do you want Skip to drive a Corvette??

[JRBeaman]

YouTube: watch?v=P-PxA5nUjkg

You keep voting for liberals into Congress and this is what you get. They violate our Constitution. ONLY by requiring Congress to follow our Constitution and Bill of Rights will we get our country back.

Congress makes the laws, not the president.

Grow up and get educated people. Go read our founding documents before you think you can speak up on this.

Your ignorance is showing.

It isn't wallstreet that is screwing us.

It is YOU voting for prople like Palosi.

[JRBeaman]

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents...." --James Madison--

"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be... if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." --Thomas Jefferson--

Your vote has screwed us all.

[PammyG68]

Agreed, I do not think it is wallstreet. The doing away with American jobs is what started it. No one really seems to mind, until it is their job. Actually, I have been preaching this for the last 5 years. There is no way you can slash jobs to bring these "products" back to the US and sell them. It is a vicious circle. It does not matter how inexpensively things are made overseas to make a company larger prifits if their is not a market for it, here. Good points.

[bornbillsmith]

Wall street was not the thing that is destroying our economy.

Read Thomas Friedman's article in last Saturday's New York Times.

What happened on Wall Street just broke the Camels back.

Whether we build those factories outside this country or someone else does they will be built.

If American Companies build them at least some of that money comes back to our shores.

But you are right.

We have to figure a way to make it possible for this country to be more competitive.

[PammyG68]

The mortgaes are just a sliver of the problem and it is the equivalent of saying, "Look, shiney object!" We cannot send goods and jobs overseas to be manufactured under the premise of "free trade" when the countries manufacturing those products are not consumers of those products, then, bring them back to sell to who? A country full of unemployed people? We are seeing cracks in the plaster from outsourcing, as well.

[bornbillsmith]

It wasn't Wall street that created this problem.

Wall street gave mortgages to people who couldn't afford them and that was wrong but it was Main street that defaulted on those mortgages.

It's what happened on Main Street that our country is unable to compete with the rest of the world when it comes to exports.

It wasn't Wall street that made it impossible to produce a car we can sell overseas.

It wasn't Wall Street that stopped supporting our own country by not buying things made here.

[950horsepower]

It's like investing in the stock market. If you don't care where the money goes, maybe it can work for you. :)

[foldedintobeauty2]

can't believe TIME did this excellent video that is on the people's side not the banker's side.